Trompettiste compositeur arrangeur et producteur Quincy Delight Jones surnommé Q composa en 1962 le titre Soul Bossanova dans un temps record de 20 minutes selon ses dires. Ce hit expressif a marqué les esprits de très nombreuses générations d’auditeurs. Inutile de tenter de résister au très swinguant arrangement de Masato Myokoin.

Take it Easy! takes a look at life’s simple pleasures—lively happy and uncomplicated—a carefree fresh-sounding composition. This piece is arranged in a variable instrumentation and is ideally suited to a youth orchestra.

During their secondary school days Karen and Richard Carpenter already had a band and won several prizes. In 1969 they recorded their first album. From that moment they have been part of the contemporary history of pop music. Top of the World is from 1973 but still an evergreen. Now also available for concert band in this arrangement by Urata.

Shortly after the Second World War a combative movement of Danish Belgian and Dutch artists chose the cobra snake - extremely dangerous yet considered sacred - as a symbol of their resistance to strict guideliness of form. The name Cobra also happens to contain the first letters of the cities Copenhagen Brussels ans Amsterdam from where most of the movement's members came. The Cobra movement which existed from November 1948 until November 1951 can with some justicication be called the last major avant-garde movement of the 20th century.The source of inspiration for the composition Cobra comes from four paintings: Obhobning by the Dane Egill Jacobsen; La jeune fille et lamort by the Belgian Pierre Alechinsky; Orgeldraaier and Le rythme joyeux de la ville by the Dutch artists Karel Appel and Corneille. Obhobning means pile-up which is represented musically in the first part by a melodic and harmonic pilling up of perfect fourth's. The first part is also characterized by a rhythmic feeling which the painting gives through its use of numerous black stripes. In the painting La jeune fille et la mort Pierre Alechinsky places a young girl opposite Death. The second part features the constantly pulsating motion of live while a creeping dark melodic line develops. The tension between life and death is tangible as a battle reveals itself. In part three one hears the Orgeldraaier by Karel Appel as cheerful and playful as an organ grinder's music. The painting Le rythme joyeux de la ville by Corneille is busy and extremely dynamic a perfect source of inspiration for a powerful rhythmic ending to this composition.

Organ Music for Lent-This compilation contains a collection of works by 20th century American composers that have all been composed especially for use during the lent and Easter.

With Your Own Concert Band on CD-This book contains the lead wind and brass parts for 16 popular pieces from the concert band repertoire. The play-along CD contains concertband performances with the clarinet part missing from the recording.Includes: Earth Song (Michael Jackson) The Second Waltz(Shostakovich) Gabriel’s Oboe (Ennio Morricone). Abba Gold CanYou Feel the Love Tonight (Elton John) and many more.

Le mont Wakakusa (littéralement ‘herbe nouvelle’) situé à l’est de Nara tient son nom de cette herbe nouvelle qui le recouvre. À son pied se dressent plusieurs temples et sanctuaires célèbres dont le Temple Todaiji et le sanctuaire de Kasuga. Le quinze janvier de chaque année le mont Wakakusa est le théâtre d’un incroyable spectacle nocturne. La tradition veut que pour célébrer l’événement du Yamayaki (la Fête du feu de l’herbe) le mont soit embrasé pour laisser les flammes illuminer le ciel nocturne au-dessus de Nara.